Smiles like these are exactly what #HelpPortrait is about

Doing The Help Portrait In Diepsloot Part 3 – Giving Back 10 Aug 2012 | Posted in Bing , South Africa | Comments In April 2012, a couple of my friends had the idea to give 1,600 Help Portrait photos to the people in Diepsloot, a large squatter settlement in Johannesburg. We had struggled with resources. But in end April, the readers of this blog contributed funds to support us on this mission. And a bunch of volunteers came forward in June to help us do the near impossible feat of taking photographs for hundreds and hundreds of children. In July, we printed and mounted these photos on cardboard . And now in August, we’ve finally kept our word to the children and returned to Diepsloot to give their portraits back to them. And THIS was the moment we had all worked so hard for - It was a day of happiness. I haven’t had a good week and was a bundle of gloom and moodiness, but ...